A Cristiano Ronaldo double helped Real Madrid come from behind to boost their hopes of a third straight Champions League crown during a pulsating last-16 encounter with Paris St-Germain. The Portuguese forward scored a late close-range strike after his penalty had cancelled out Adrien Rabiot’s opener at the end of…

Zakaria Hadraf scored twice as Morocco thumped 10-men Nigeria 4-0 in Sunday’s African Nations Championship final in Casablanca to win their first CHAN title. Hadraf opened the scoring in the 44th minute after the Atlas Lions had largely bossed the opening stages, and struck the hosts’ third in the 63rd…

Doping bans on 28 Russian athletes were overturned on Thursday, throwing the International Olympic Committee’s policy on Russia doping into chaos just over a week before the start of the Winter Games in South Korea. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld the appeals of athletes given lifetime Olympic…

Roger Federer went where no man has gone before on Sunday in Melbourne, joining Margaret Court, Serena Williams and Steffi Graf in the exclusive club consisting of players who won at least 20-Grand Slam singles titles. Historic firsts are destined to be duplicated. Think of Babe Ruth’s 700 home runs,…

Big week for WWE CEO Vince McMahon. On Monday he took a ”Stone Cold Stunner” on “WWE Raw,” then on Thursday he’ll announce he’s starting a new football league. We’ll see which moment ends up being more absurd. McMahon tried football in 2001 with the XFL, and it bombed hard.…

A former US Olympic team doctor has been sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for sexually abusing athletes and patients for decades. The sentencing follows a seven-day hearing in which 156 victims spoke out about the abuse they said they had suffered at the hands of Larry Nassar, the disgraced…

Manchester United have signed Alexis Sanchez from Arsenal, in a swap deal with midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan. The Chilean forward has signed a four-and-a-half-year deal worth £14m a year after tax. It was alleged that Manchester City had a keen interest with Sanchez, 29, but ended their pursuit last week as…

Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge will race Britain’s Mo Farah in the London Marathon in April. Kipchoge a 2016 Olympic marathon gold medalist is been described as “the greatest marathoner of the modern era” “London is a good course, and the world record can be broken here,” says Kipchoge. “Remember I ran…

Four-time Olympic champion Simone Biles says she was sexually abused by former Team USA gymnastics sports doctor Larry Nassar. In an emotional statement, Biles, a star of the Rio Games, said she would not let Nassar “steal my love and joy”. Nassar was jailed for 60 years for possessing child…

Manchester City’s unbeaten run came to an end after their thrilling 4-3 rout by Liverpool on Sunday. City will be annoyed that they gave away some sloppy goals at Anfield but Liverpool’s finishing had to be brilliant to punish them for that. What the Reds showed is what can happen when…